Basic IMAGE version of Foils prepared 15 March 1996
Foil 16 Expected Total Noise in each of LIGO's first 4km interferometers
From Numerical Formulation and Solution of Collision 0f two Black Holes CPSP713 Case studies in Computational Science -- Spring Semester 1996. byGeoffrey C. Fox
(Upper solid curve) and in a more advanced interferometer (lower solid curve)
The dashed curves show various contributions to the first interferometer's noise.